Is There Really a Terrific Authentic Nick's Pizza in NYC?

If you're watching Castle on ABC tonight you might be wondering, Is there really an Authentic Nick's in NYC?

The answer is no. There's no Authentic Nick's.

Nor is there an Authentic Terrific Nick's or a Terrific Authentic Nick's.

Though the whole flippity-floppity name thing is based on NYC's various Ray's pizzerias. We have Ray's, Famous Ray's, Famous Original Ray's, World Famous Original Ray's, Original Famous Ray's — even a Not Ray's!

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Adam Kuban is the proprietor of the pop-up Margot's Pizza, which serves bar-style pizza. But you may also know him as the founder of Slice (RIP, 2003–2014) where he has written thousands of blog posts about pizza. He also created A Hamburger Today and served as Serious Eats's founding editor (2006–2010) after having sold those sites to SE.

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